Sardine is looking for a Data Scientist to measure, understand, and improve the performance of our risk strategies. In this role, you will analyze complex datasets, design metrics, build dashboards, and collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business to drive decision-making and optimize outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Develop and track metrics to measure and monitor the performance of our risk products and the effectiveness of risk management strategies.
- Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover valuable insights contributing to fraud reduction and higher approval rates for our clients.
- Serve as a client-facing partner by translating complex data insights into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Build and experiment with ML models to identify fraudulent patterns and enhance fraud detection capabilities.
- Work with engineers on data instrumentation.
- Create and automate self-serve dashboards leveraging BI tools.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Business, Product, and Engineering) to understand and translate business requirements into actionable data-driven solutions.
- Collaborate on implementing risk mitigation solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals.
What We're Looking For
- Strong technical background with 7+ years of experience demonstrating high impact in a data-focused role such as product analytics, business analytics, or data science.
- Prior experience in the Fraud/Risk domain.
- Hands-on experience in SQL and Python.
- Expertise in BI tools such as Tableau/Sigma/Metabase.
- Exposure to building ML models to address business challenges.
- Ability to structure and analyze data, leveraging techniques like EDA and cohort analysis, transform them into understandable and actionable recommendations, and then communicate them effectively across the organization and clients.
- Proficiency in defining, utilizing, and communicating performance metrics.
- Creative problem-solving, strong critical thinking, and a getting-things-done approach.
Technical Stack
- SQL
- Python
- Tableau/Sigma/Metabase
Team & Environment
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Business, Product, and Engineering).
Benefits & Compensation
- Base pay range of $150K - $180K + equity with tremendous upside potential.
- Generous compensation in cash and equity.
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested.
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada specific).
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific).
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door.
- One-time stipend to set up a home office.
- Monthly meal stipend.
- Monthly social meet-up stipend.
- Annual health and wellness stipend.
- Annual Learning stipend.
- Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory.
- Flexible paid time off, Year-end break, Self care days off.
Work Mode
This role is remote-first, open to candidates in the United States and Canada. We value performance and not hours worked, believing you shouldn't have to miss important life events for an arbitrary work schedule.
Sardine is an equal opportunity employer.
